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A 5 page research paper that answers specific questions pertaining to Richard Bernstein's text Fragile Glory, A Portrait of France and the French (1990).Topics addressed include the Greenpeace affair, French contentiousness, and French politicians and politics. No additional sources cited.
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1985, a Greenpeace boat carrying political activists was determined to interfere with a series of underground nuclear explosions that the French government was carrying out in the Pacific (Bernstein 294).
The French government saw the exercise as crucial to preserving the status of France as a reckoned with in the world. Therefore, a clandestine operation was authorized by Charles Hernu,
Frances minister of defense. Two French scuba-divers placed two explosive devices on the hull of the Greenpeace ship. The first explosion was intended to be a warning that would
cause those on board to abandon ship. Unfortunately, a Greenpeace photographer, a native of Portugal who was also a citizen of Holland, decided to investigate and was close by when
the second explosion went off. He was killed. The French operatives, a man and a woman posing as a married couple were captured by New Zealand authorities, and all
details were soon made public. Both Hernu and the couple were punished, but only lightly. Hernu immediately took responsibility and resigned his post. This action endeared him to the French
public. The couple received ten year prison citizens, which--due to diplomatic negotiations--were commuted to three years exile on a French naval base, but even this light sentence was not fully
carried out. The man was sent home to France when he developed a stomach ailment and the woman was sent home when she became pregnant. They were lionized as national
heroes. In explaining the publics reaction to this affaire, Berntstein connects the Greenpeace incident with the French conception of its national destiny. Hernu was perceived as defending the
concept of la raison detat, which the French see as "essential for the fulfillment the countrys historic mission" (296). In todays world, the reduction of French power and influence,
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